Go Penn libraries staff!!! pennlibrariesunited.github.io 📚📜

Thank you for publishing open access!

Bridging Altruism to Strategy in OA Book Publishing Workshop · Copim

Looking forward to talking about #OA strategy in libraries at this COPIM/Lyrasis workshop next week: copim.pubpub.org/pub/workshop...

A Genealogy of the Gentleman, by Mary Beth Harris. Cover shows an 18th-century engraving of a woman in magnificent dress looking unimpressed as a gentleman bows to kiss her hand; a male servant lingers in the background.

One of the truly great pleasures of my existence is when a former student writes a brilliant book, and I get to hold it in my hot little hands. Congratulations to Mary Beth Harris on the publication of A Genealogy of the Gentleman, now out with UDel. #c18

The long-awaited news from the Chicago Manual of Style: Place of publication will no longer be used in citations as of the 18th edition (with rare exceptions for clarity).

I wish my university offered something like this!

Meet the woman who helped libraries across the U.S. 'surf the internet' Jean Armour Polly was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019 for evangelizing computers in public libraries, the precursor to the internet being offered as a core service in those spaces.

Meet the woman who helped libraries across the U.S. 'surf the internet' #libraries www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1...

Love the cover!!

The Rise of the Faculty Budget Activists They have proposals to stave off cuts. Is anyone listening?

Everyone working in higher education--faculty, staff and administrators--could really use a crash course in higher ed finance. Seeing the light bulbs turn on when I teach my more in-depth version is awesome.

Digital archives have ongoing costs in perpetuity. You can't fund a "digital archive" with a one-time grant. YOU CAN'T FUND A DIGITAL ARCHIVE WITH A ONE-TIME GRANT

Title: Methods of defending your local library from government cuts. 1. Comminity Support: families stand round the licrary with placards 2. Fortifications: The library now has crenellations, a high wall and guards with spears. 3. Camouflage: the library has been painted with a camouflage pattern. 4. Black magic: the library has been painted with a huge pentagram , a sorceror casts a spell from an altar. 5. Time Travel: weird machinery is attached to the library, it is in a prehistoric jungle, a dinosaur walks past. 6. Disguise: the library has been dressed to look like a vape shop 7. Attack!: the library has tank tracks and large mechanical arms, it speeds forth, a librarian urges it on from a hatch at the top.

A cartoon about libraries for the Guardian.

Yikes.

Looks fascinating! Putting this on my to-read list…

Hi Bluesky #digitalhumanities! Keystone DH = a midAtlantic network of DH people in the Mid-Atlantic US since 2015. We're hosting a conference at Penn State Erie (May 20 - 22): CFP by March 1: keystonedh.network/2024 (You don't have to be in midAtlantic to join the confererence!) Please share!

Uggh. What a mess.

There is a lot of blurriness when it comes to scholcomm/data management/digital scholarship. But I agree the title of this position is confusing!!

Crazy to me that faculty weren’t told but staff were?

Applications are now open for the Open Education Publishing Institute: Collaborative Knowledge and Social Justice, a summer 2024 NEH @neh-odh.bsky.social Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities institute. Come work with us on your OER materials!

oepi2024.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2024/01/26/a...

CRAFT: AI Literacy Resources is a growing set of engaging materials coming out of Stanford University GSE. Aimed at K-12 but useful in #highered--we do need to work together more! I like the interactive "explorables." Glad these are open-licensed too.
craft.stanford.edu/dash/resources 1/2

#skybrarians and other librarian friends, can you help me out? I'm starting to work on a Management syllabus, would love to crowdsource ideas. What was missing from the class you took? What's the most important thing LIS students should learn about managing libraries today? <3<3 Readings/syllabi too

Image of trees covered in snow with a dog sniffing the snow.

Beautiful snow day!

How the New York Public Library is navigating "challenges in providing access to one essential category of research materials: published monographs that are neither in the public domain nor commercially available for the library to purchase or license digitally." #FeedingTheElephant

I honestly think the problem is less about adding responsibilities and more about not stopping doing other things...

Really hoping for snow!!!

Somehow I missed this. Huge congrats Perry on this next step!

Such a great new resource for library publishers!

I want one!!

So glad Shelly was able to help!

Yikes. So sorry Ian. Let us know if we can help!

One lesson about the disabling systems attack on the British Library that I hope more people take away:

Library & archives systems infrastructure is generally invisible and incredibly important. We need resources & people to manage it all. Help us to advocate for funding.